Walking on thin ice I'm paying the price For throwing the dice in the air Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart? I gave you my knife You gave me my life Like a gush of wind in my hair Why do we forget what's been said And play the game of life with our hearts? I may cry someday But the tears will dry whichever way And when our hearts return to ashes It'll be just a story It'll be just a story Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai... Ooh-ahooh... "I knew a girl who tried to walk across the lake, 'Course it was winter when all this was ice. That's a hell of a thing to do, you know. They say the lake is as big as the ocean. I wonder if she knew about it?" Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai...

Sometimes in my bed at night I curse the dark and I pray for the light And sometimes, the light's no consolation Blinded by the memory Afraid of what it might do to me And the tears and the sweat Only mock my desperation Don't you know me I'm the boy next door The one you find so easy to ignore Is that what I was fightin' for Walking on a thin line Straight off the front line, labeled as freaks Loose on the streets of the city Walking on a thin line Angry all the time Take a look at my face See what it's doing to me Taught me how to shoot to kill A specialist with a deadly skill A skill I needed to have to be a survivor It's over now or so they say Well, sometimes, it don't work out that way 'Cause you're never the same When you've been under fire, no Don't you know me I'm the boy next door The one you find so easy to ignore Is that what I was fightin' for Walking on a thin line Straight off the front line, labeled as freaks Loose on the streets of the city Walking on a thin line Angry all the time Take a look at my face See what it's done to me Don't you know me I'm the boy next door The one you find so easy to ignore Is that what I was fightin' for, no Walking on a thin line Straight off the front line, labeled as freaks Loose on the streets of the city Walking on a thin line Angry all the time Take a look at my face See what it's doing to me Walking on a thin line Walking on a thin line Walking on a thin line

Meanwhile back in the year one When you belonged to no-one You didn't stand a chance son If your pants were undone. 'Cause you were bred for humanity And sold to society One day you'll wake up In the present day A million generations Removed from expectations of Being who you really want to be. Skating away, Skating away Skating away On the thin ice of the new day. So as you push off from the shore Won't you turn your head once more And make your peace with everyone? For those who choose to stay Will live just one more day To do the things they should have done. And as you cross the wilderness Spinning in your emptiness: You feel you have to pray. Looking for a sign that the universal mind has written you into the passion play. Skating away, Skating away Skating away On the thin ice of the new day. And as you cross the circle line The ice-wall creaks behind You're a rabbit on the run. And the silver splinters fly In the corner of your eye Shining in the setting sun. Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present Tense? Or that everybody's on the stage, And it seems like you're the only person Sitting in the audience? Skating away, Skating away Skating away On the thin ice of the new day, Skating away, Skating away, Skating away

Guilty undertaker sighs Lonely organ grinder cries Silver saxophones say i, I should refuse you Cracked bells and washed out horns Blow into my face with scorn It's not that way I wasn't born to lose you I want you I want you Darling, i want you So bad Drunken politicians leap Onto the street where mothers weep And saviors who are fast asleep They wait for you And I'll wait for them to interrupt me Drinking from my broken cup And ask me To open up the gate for you I want you I want you Darling, I want you So bad I want you Darling, I want you, oh Oh, I want you Oh, so bad Now all my fathers, they've gone down True love, they've been without it And all their daughters, they still put me down 'Cause I think about it I will return to the queen of spades Talk with my chamber maid She knows that I'm not afraid to look at her She's good to me There's nothing she don't see She knows where I would rather be But that doesn't matter Your dancing child with his chinese suit He spoke to me, I stole his flute No, I wasn't that cute to him Was I? I did it though because he lied Because he took you for a ride Because time was on his side Because, I want you Darling, I want you I want you Oh, I want you I want you So bad Oh, don't joke with me now, baby I want you I want you Let's go home I want you...

I'm a wounded soldier on a downtown train to your place You've launched a secret heart with your face You don't always say what I want to hear but you move me Across the rooftops and into the deep blue sea Did we not choose each other? Are we just heroes for a day? This time I will stand by you And mine is the heart I will save, yeah I drew a hard line but I just can't see it Your colors are bleeding all over my bullshit I wanna be your star but I gotta learn to feel myself I want your love and I need your help Did we not choose each other? Are we just heroes for a day? This time I will stand by you And mine is the heart I will save Can we not judge each other? I'd rather wipe your tears away I can follow my heart till the end But I just can't choose the way Just because we live like dolphins together So many reasons to break the wave We can swim from street lamp to street lamp forever We can be kissing in the rain Can we not judge each other? I'd rather wipe your tears away I can follow my heart till the end But I just can't choose the way Listen baby, listen baby don't you do me wrong I can make my bed, you can sing your song Ain't nobody else gonna make you shine If it's the truth you seek then darlin' love you'll find I don't wanna, I don't wanna take your pain away Isn't yours to give, isn't mine to save Here's my heart, here's my hand, here's my soul Take it in, take it apart, take it easy, let it go Listen baby, listen baby don't you do me wrong I can make my bed, you can sing your song Ain't nobody else gonna make you shine If it's the truth you seek then darlin' love you'll find I don't wanna, I don't wanna take your pain away Isn't yours to give, isn't mine to save Here's my heart, here's my hand, here's my soul Take it in, take it apart, take it easy, let it go Listen baby, listen baby don't you do me wrong I can make my bed, you can sing your song Ain't nobody else gonna make you shine If it's the truth you seek then darlin' love you'll find I don't wanna, I don't wanna take your pain away Isn't yours to give, isn't mine to save Here's my heart, here's my hand, here's my soul Take it in, take it apart, take it easy, let it go